Britain News Alert – Big Brother Just Got Bigger!

After wrangling for months, Parliament has finally passed the new spying law that allows authorities – from police to food inspectors, from tax inspectors to fire officials – to access the internet data of the entire country.

The new law requires telecom companies to keep records of all users’ online activities and create personal profiles of each individual that will store in the database for a year. These individual profiles can be viewed by any authority if needed. Officials will not need any prior warrant to look into the data. The list of authorities who are allowed to access the data includes not just the police and intelligence services, but government departments, revenue and customs officials and even the Food Standards Agency.

Furthermore, firms and individuals are worried about the vulnerability of the data from hackers and snoopers. Civil liberties groups say the law establishes mass surveillance of British citizens, following innocent Internet users from the office to the living room and the bedroom.

Tim Berners-Lee, the computer scientist credited with the invention of World Wide Web, tweeted after the announcement of the bill and he wrote:

“Dark, Dark Days.”

Home Office official Chris Mills told a meeting of Internet service providers:

“It won’t happen in a big bang next week. It will be a phased program of the introduction of the measures over a year or so.”

Renate Samson, chief executive of the group Big Brother Watch, said:

“We now live in a digital world. We are digital citizens. We have no choice about whether or not we engage online. This bill has fundamentally changed how we are able to privately and securely communicate with one another, communicate with business, communicate with government and live an online life. And that’s a real, profound concern.”

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